Eugene Carriere (1849-1906). "portrait Of Edmond De Goncourt". Lithography. XIX.

Original wooden frame, white patina, golden edge (usual wear), gray passe-partout.
Frame dimensions: 74 x 55 cm. Dimensions of the lithograph: 53 x 41 cm.
Signed in the plate and the margin, dry stamp "Circle of the bookstore". There are spots and foxing only in the margins.
They are hidden by the master key. The photographs were taken with the glass.
Eugene Carriere (1849-1906).
He grew up in Strasbourg where he received training as a lithographer. Against his father's advice, he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in Cabanel's studio. Noticed by critics, appreciated by collectors like Moreau-Nélaton, he was introduced to personalities from the literary, artistic and political world whose features he immortalized in penetrating portraits: Verlaine, Gauguin, Daudet, Clemenceau, Rodin, Anatole France, etc. … The exhibitions follow one another: first personal exhibition in 1891 at Boussod and Valadon, participation in the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900, Salon de la Libre Esthétique, de l'Art Nouveau at Bing or exhibition in 1896, in the company of Rodin and Puvis de Chavannes. Art of suggestion par excellence, his work evolves towards a monochromy of earth and ochre, inspiring Picasso, who retains only the play of shadow and light. Misunderstood by the general public, this slow evolution is hailed by Gauguin and Maurice Denis. From the 1880s, Eugène Carrière became friends with Rodin, whose friendship and aesthetic ideas he shared; the sculptor entrusts him with the poster and the preface to the catalog of his 1900 exhibition at the Pavillon de l'Alma. Witness of his time, Carrière participates in the movement of ideas: defense of Dreyfus alongside Clemenceau and Zola, female emancipation, etc… Never dogmatic, he defends a humanism that places education at the center of concerns.